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There is a controversy among Republican leaders about publicly declaring what the GOP would do if it won back Congress and the presidency. e GOP hasn’t had a platform since 2016. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to o er a GOP agenda for the midterms. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida challenged McConnell and released an “11 Point Plan to Rescue America.” He’s the head of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm. Under his plan, kids will say the Pledge of Allegiance, salute the ag and won’t be exposed to “the revisionist history of the radical left.” e border wall will be nished and will be named after Trump. Scott promises to “shrink the federal government, reduce the government workforce by 25% in ve years, sell government buildings and assets...” He says, “Men

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GOP ultra-MAGA love of authoritarian Hungary by Dave Anderson

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THE ANDERSON FILES from Page 5 on government” would vote for Obama. e comments were leaked to Mother Jones. Incidentally, all working people pay Social Security and Medicare taxes as well as state and local taxes. Scott is the richest man in Con gress. Jonathan Weisman of the New York Times notes: “In 2002, the sprawl ing hospital chain (Scott) ran agreed to pay more than $880 million to settle the Justice Department’s longest-run ning inquiry into health care fraud, including $250 million returned to Medicare to resolve charges contested by theScott’sgovernment.”planhasmade many Repub lican politicians nervous. Its proposals are deeply unpopular with the Ameri can people.at’sa problem. MAGA Re publicans have a solution—make the U.S. less and less democratic. ey are learning from autocratic gures like Bolsonaro in Brazil, Modi in India, Erdogan in Turkey, Netanyahu in Israel. ey particularly like Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary. Fox News host Tucker Carlson broadcast from Hungary for a week, promoting the regime as a model for the U.S. Freedom House, a Washing ton-based human rights advocacy group, says Hungary is only a “partly free” country. In its rating for 2022, it said Orbán changed laws to “consoli date control over the country’s indepen dent institutions,” stymied opposition groups, journalists, universities and non-governmental groups. Repressive anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT+ laws wereKimpassed.Lane Scheppele, a professor of international a airs at Princeton, has called Orbán “the ultimate twen ty- rst-century dictator.” Elections are held but democratic structures are hollowed out Scheppeleslowly.toldDemocracy Now! Orbán took control of the election rules and machinery and the courts so it is his people who count the votes. She said, “It doesn’t matter how people vote, because your rules will overcome any popularRepublicansvote.” are using Orbán’s “playbook.” Election deniers have been winning in Republican primaries for secretaries of Scheppelestate.saidOrbán changed a law that protected civil service employees from political in uence. He red thou sands of them who weren’t in his party and replaced them with his unkies. Recently, Jonathan Swan of Axios revealed that Trump created a new cate gory of federal employee called Sched ule F with none of the job protections. e plan is to transfer many current civ il servants into this new status so they can be easily red. ere are boot camps currently training young Trumpists to immediately go into government right after a Republican is elected president. ey will get the protected jobs. Recently, the Conservative Political Ac tion Conference (CPAC) was held in Dallas and Orbán was the big star. Shortly before this, Orbán had provoked worldwide con demnation for saying that mixing between Europeans was acceptable, but Europeans mixing with non-Europeans created “mixed race”Apeople.longtime Orbán adviser quit, saying the comments were “pure Nazi text worthy of (Nazi propagandist) Goebbels.” However, there wasn’t any controversy at the CPAC event. is opinion column does not necessarily re ect the views of Boulder Weekly. Email: editorial@boulderweekly.com

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Martha R. Wilson/Boulder COMMUNITY CONCERN OVER ECONOMIC AMBITION e University of Colorado’s thirst for expansion speaks more to its success as a corporate business than as an institution of higher learning. Boulder was a pioneer in environmental protections. Height restrictions, a “Blue Line” preventing development in the lower foothills and the acquisition of open land were enacted to preserve a quality of life for residents. An eight storey hotel is under construction on the Hill, with a convention center planned kitty corner at the intersection of Universi ty and Broadway. As in its push for a South Campus, CU is interested only in itself. e disregard of increased tra c congestion and pollution in neighborhoods and the climate issues of a larger carbon footprint and water use in a future of rising temperatures and extended drought is disrespectful not only of the citizens of Boulder but of the quality of life across the Earth.

My oldest three children will begin their senior, junior and sophomore years of high school in the next few days. As much as I would like to give a pitch about how they need to see leaders who look like them in positions like HD10 to admire and emulate as they start to imagine who they would like to grow up to be, I must make a small confes sion.I was not much older than the age my children are now when I had them, and the journey of provid ing for them and nding my own social justice voice has involved a lot of trying, a lot of shut profes sional doors and a lot of grief from candidates that have not lived up to the stances they negotiated their votes on and/or who are trying to bail before they’ve even found their footing in their current roles. I need Junie Joseph to win this Democratic seat for me, and for people like me, who are raising families and scared for their safety, who are working multiple jobs yet struggling to survive here and who share in the weight and impact of actively trying to x enduring systems of long-held racial and social inequities. I have canvased and called on behalf of Democratic candidates for the bulk of the last two decades and know we will not nd someone so astute, sensible and humane as Junie Joseph. Junie is advocating beside par ents in the peak of the largest trauma that many of these families will ever face. Junie is out there in the streets marching for reproductive health rights with us. Junie Joseph means what she says, and she is more than just talk. Junie’s rise to HD10 will be the least disruptive and frankly, Junie Joseph is what Boulder needs.

Sadly, the current City Council is on board. With the uncertainty of future climate change, broader community concern should be at the forefront, not economic ambition.

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Hundreds of Fairview students walked out in protest the next day. In what they saw as a vac uum of adult-assisted justice, the student group BVSD Survivors and allies took to microphones and read out demands: more prevention e orts, better investigations and greater attention to theirBVSDvoices.administrators responded: ey said they’d heard the students loud and clear, throughout the last school year, they respond ed with several district-wide changes. BVSD’s Title IX policy (the federal civil rights law that protects equal access to violence-free, federally funded learning environments) got an upgrade: new contracts with new preven tion education specialists were signed; investi gations into some administrators are ongoing; communication strategies have been clari ed; a new council has been formed for student and community input; and more actions are in the works, BVSD says. “We will be working to communicate, to listen, to do all the things that we can do to build trust,” BVSD’s com munication director, Randy Barber, says. With a 22% increase in teenagers reporting to Boulder County emergency departments for sexual violence from 2020 to 2021, and a multitude of open civil and criminal cases involving the school district and/or its em ployees and students, many in the commu nity wonder: Is BVSD’s plan enough? is week, the rst bells of the 2022-23 school year are ringing. In terms of safety, support and accountability, what can stu dents and the community at large expect?

by Emma Athena

Many sources for this story agreed to be interviewed on the basis of anonymity, due to experience with and fear of social and profes sional retaliation for speaking on the topic of sexual eviolence.accused juvenile who appeared in court this week played on the same football team as Aidan Atkinson. e two appear in uniform, side-by-side in the Fairview Knights’ 2018 foot ball program. Atkinson was arrested in the fall of 2019 after allegations from multiple young women mounted into a criminal prosecution; 18 months later, due to COVID delays, he stood before a judge and jury, and his victims testi ed to their trauma. In May 2021, Atkinson was acquitted of his most serious charges ( ve counts related to sexual assault) and eventually pled guilty to two misdemeanors resulting in a year of probation and 50 hours of community service.

BVSD has a new plan for sexual assault prevention and supporting survivors. Is it enough?

A nother former high school student from Boulder took the stand in court this week, one of several who have recently been accused of sex ually violating a peer. e details of his case are remarkable only in the sense that they happened in real life, and that enough peo ple believed his victim’s claims for them to make it as far as the courtroom: He “grabbed” her in a friend’s basement, according to police reports Boulder Weekly reviewed; he “dragged” her to a couch, alcohol was involved, she said “stop,” she said “no,” and he spent 10 minutes assaulting her, the victim alleges. She stopped attending classes and eventually transfered schools, was hospitalized for suicidal tendencies, and three years later, after therapy and gathering a sense of support, took her case to the Boulder Police De partment (BDP). He’d tried to shove his st in her vagina, one of her friends told a detective. A seven-month investigation from June to Decem ber of 2020 led to an arrest warrant, and after 28 days of BPD trying to locate the juvenile—who in 2020 had graduated from a Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) high school—he turned himselfRemovein. the particulars of time and place in this case and it blends smoothly into a line up of young men from Boulder County—CU and BVSD students—recently accused of sexual assault. Some accusations have made it to the courtroom, but many don’t. In notes on the case, after interviewing the victim for the rst time, a BPD detective wrote: “One of the reasons she decided to report was because she felt REDACTED was ‘kind of the person that would do this again to people.’”

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Title IX upgrades and clarification Since the student walkout and protest, BVSD has created new ways for students and community members to provide input on Title IX issues; in 2021 the district upgraded Title IX policies and clari ed assault reporting procedures. And students have been responsive to the changes, administrators say. By the end of 2021, after BVSD launched an educational campaign about how to report sexual violence, for example, the number of emergency room visits from teenagers for sexual violence in Boulder County had doubled, compared to 2019.

Providing a “comprehensive health curriculum … isn’t something that’s new,” explains Jordan Goto, BVSD’s health and wellness coordinator, but formalizing its distribution is. Before summer vacation began, BVSD had reviewed and contracted two community organiza tions—Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonvi olence (SPAN) and Blue Sky Bridge (BSB). Each will provide and/or deliver curricula that meet the Colorado Department of Education’s “Compre hensive Health Standards;” the former for seven-12 grades and the latter for kindergarten. “Sex education and comprehensive sex ed is optional, not mandated in Colorado,” explains Dr. John Shields, a national Title IX policy expert and research scientist at the California-based health eq uity nonpro t ETR. He has concerns that BVSD’s education plan is insu cient, despite meeting state standards: “We’re obsessed with just attaining the oor,” he says of limiting consent education to certain grades. “And so things like best-practices— data-informed decision making—these are not in the realm yet.”

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BVSD’s kindergarten teachers can also deliver the body safety lessons themselves after receiv ing training, or a BSB educator will visit their classrooms. e kindergarten curriculum—which introduces concepts such as trusted adults, “personal space bubbles,” consent, boundaries, and private parts—will be delivered in 15-minute lessons to classrooms once a week, for four consecutive weeks.

Anne Tapp, SPAN’s executive director, lauds the district’s plan: “We’re hopeful this is a way to insti tutionalize really critical information for students in BVSD.”Beginning this semester, students in seventh and eighth grade health classes can expect three one-hour lessons about sexual assault prevention; high school health classes can expect four one-hour lessons. e lessons will be delivered by SPAN edu cators or BVSD health teachers that receive SPAN training.Tapp says SPAN designed its prevention cur riculum around the evidence-based program Safe Dates, which BVSD approved in a modi ed form to incorporate more age-appropriate content that’s inclusive to students of all genders and orientations.

But a sexual assault survivor from Fairview tells Boulder Weekly it was common last year for some male athletes to opt out of school-wide presenta tions and events related to sexual assault. She says it’s resulting in echo chambers.

Trust issues between the student body and administrators are widespread, explains incom ing Centaurus High School senior Anna Adams. “Either the school administration has failed them before, or the legal system has failed them before, or they’ve had a peer who didn’t have a good experi ence. It’s going to take a long time … to get people to really consider [change is possible],” she says. Students understand BVSD is responsible for their safety during school hours and events, but many acknowledge the district alone can’t provide them the sense of security they deserve. “We need to bring our community into the conversation,” says incoming Fairview senior Sadie Hudson. “ is isn’t an issue that’s isolated to high schools or any schools in general. is is an issue that we’re facing as a community.”

Goto says while students could opt out of these health classes, opt-out rates are so insigni cant, “they’re not even measurable.”

A new prevention strategy Sydney Wu, another rising Fairview senior, says she used her college application essays to wrestle with the question of how to change toxic school cultures. Her answer? More education. is spring, BVSD redesigned how it approach es body safety and sexual assault prevention lessons. In March, it issued its rst-ever call for proposals from community organizations to provide sexual health curricula for students in kindergarten, sev enth, eighth and high school grades.

“It’s very developmentally at their level,” says Trish Wood, BSB’s prevention and education manager. e primary goal is “to build empathy and make sure kids grow up to respect each other’s boundaries.”Becausekindergarten is the only elementary grade to include body safety programming in Colorado’s academic standards, the organi zation will resume visits with third and fth grade classes if school counselors or individual teachers reach out. “ e district feels that this information is still really important,” Wood explains. “So they’re not mandating it, but making it available as an option for the school.”Shields, however, says BVSD must do more to make a “comprehensive model” truly comprehensive: “Science says that if you want skills and behaviors to change, you’re going to need at least 10 to 15 hours of content.”

A parent, who requested anonymity after her daughter left BVSD due to being bullied after her assault was publicized, agrees BVSD’s new prevention education plan isn’t enough. Her analo gy: “ ey went down to the drugstore, and they got a little Band-Aid, and they put it on a wound that’s gushingShieldsblood.”won’t single out BVSD, as many U.S. school districts face similar situations. “But from a preventionist with a scienti c perspective, it is a Band-Aid,” he agrees. “It isn’t at the dosage that will result in actual outcome.”

Challenging culture Everyday Alyssa walks into Fairview High School, she puts on “like, a shield,” then gives herself a pep talk: “I’m like, OK, I need to protect myself and just get through today, because it’s un comfortable, and I never really know what could be thrown at me,” she says. Alyssa asked to use an alias out of fear of being bullied for speaking out about the school environment. Alyssa was a freshman last year, and says she’d been called “slut” and “whore” just for walking down the hallway—mild versions of the between-class groping and harassment that other young women at Fairview have reported to BPD detectives. “I feel like Fairview sta chooses to ignore what is going on,” Alyssa says, which “100%” a ects her ability to Fairviewlearn.isone of BVSD’s 56 schools. e district serves approximately 30,000 students across 500 square miles between Boulder, Broom eld, Erie, Eldorado Springs, Gold Hill, Jamestown, Lafayette, Louisville, Mar shall, Nederland, Superior and Ward. “It’s hard to walk past people that you know are doing things every day,” Alyssa says. “ ey have [this attitude], like, ‘If I don’t get caught doing anything, then I never actually did Heranything.’”twoolder sisters also attended Fairview; that many of the young men from BVSD accused of sexual violence have multi ple victims is a detail not lost on Alyssa. “It’s probably the most toxic place I have ever been in my entire life, so I do not feel comfortable or safe there,” Alyssa says. “It is—it is just so miserable.”

And with research available on what works and what doesn’t, he wonders, “ en what is the purpose of educating students in this one-o kind of way? … We start worrying about resources, intentions, the scienti c mindset—like, what’s happening in this district?”

STUDENTS UNDERSTAND BVSD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR SAFETY during school hours and events, but many acknowledge the district alone can’t provide them the sense of security they deserve.

BUT IN WATCHING EVENTS UNFOLD AT BVSD over the last couple years, some parents and organizations have already begun taking matters into their own hands.

Other support available for survivors Beyond what BVSD provides, several other avenues for support and/or justice exist for sexual assault survivors, explains Emily Tofte Nestaval, execu tive director of the Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center. “We recommend that survivors reach out and get an advocate of some type that can help them walk through all these processes.”

BVSD students Wu, Adams and Hudson all applied and were selected for the advisory council last year. Together they focused on the “ rst building block,” as Wu describes it: educating their peers about Title IX. “We can’t ad vocate for our rights if we don’t know about them,” Hudson explains. is year, they’re planning larger-scale presentations for high school student bodies. “I’m ashamed that it took until my junior year for me to even know what Title IX was,” Adams says, “and so I don’t want that to happen to anybody else.”

For example, survivors can apply to receive nancial support from the District Attorney’s o ce, even without pressing charges, Boulder County’s Chief Trial Deputy District Attorney Catrina Weigel explains. Victims are still eligible to apply for victim’s compensation if their case “falls in that category of ‘we think that it happened, we just can’t prove it,’” Weigel says. Survivors can get reimbursement for services like therapy, self-defense classes, lost wages, changing locks and more.

During the summer of 2021, BVSD also created a new Title IX coordi nator position (Many others have served that role, including BSVD’s general legal counsel, Kathleen Sullivan). Attorney Elizabeth Francis was hired, and throughout the fall of 2021, she hosted a series of student round-tables and stood up a Title IX advisory council, both designed as arenas for more voices to express and act upon Title IX concerns.

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BSB, as part of the statewide Colorado Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Coalition, has also advocated for adding body safety and consent lessons to health standards of more grades. “With those curriculum standards changed, [prevention] would be easier,” Wood says.

From its inception, Francis says the Title IX advisory council was intended to include community stakeholders, but last year the district had only the ca pacity to convene and focus on student voices. Now, Francis says, they’re ready to include more members, like guardians and leaders of com munity organizations. Based on feedback, Francis says, “they want a little bit more periodic, active participation.”Applications for communi ty members and new students interested in joining the advisory council are open until Sept. 2, 2022. e students created the application, set the deadlines and de ned the council’s scope of work, Francis says. But in watching events unfold at BVSD over the last couple years, some parents and organiza tions have already begun taking matters into their own hands, pushing for change beyond district policy. “It has become obvious to our community that systemic issues and leadership failures have contributed to the harmful culture that exists today,” says Tracy Dundon, a BVSD parent who, earlier this year, collaborated with State Sen. Faith Winter and State Rep. Jennifer Bacon on legislative bill SB22-207, intended to stan dardize Title IX policies and best-practices across Colorado school districts.

In early August, Dundon was asked to participate in a research project sponsored by Rep. Bacon in coordination with an Urban Leaders Fellowship policy team investigating Title IX gaps and systemic issues nationally at the K-12“Aslevel.parents, we send our children to school and we assume that if there are laws in place that foster safe, healthy and equitable learning environments, that the district must be compliant,” Dundon says. “But that is not always the case, and I nd this negligent and concerning.”

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In a back-to-school email, Fairview’s new principal acknowledged “the di cult times that this community has been through” related to sexual violence allegations and administrative negligence, reasserting “it is crucially important that we reestablish trust.”

Another Fairview survivor agrees: “It’s much easier to just stay silent about it,” she says. “School is not a pleasant environment to be in.”

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When it comes to ongoing cases, BVSD stresses the information it’s able to provide is limited, considering students have privacy protection rights, particu larly as juveniles. “We share as much as we possibly can,” Francis says. “We would love to be super transparent on everything, but … ultimately there are legal issues that we have to face,” says BVSD spokesperson Barber. “With all that in mind, our hope is to be as straightforward and open as we can be,” adding BVSD’s goal is to be more proactive, “not to just communicate with a community when they’ve had an incident.” Students understand the only way they’ll be able to win the peace they de sire at school is to invite more people to their cause. Wu, Hudson, and Adams all agree the next council should include more male and nonbinary students.

“ ere does not have to be a criminal prosecution,” Weigel says, though a police report must be made. A board reviews the police reports and makes decisions about how money is allocated. “We have a really good relationship with BVSD,” adds Weigel, who has served as chief of the DA’s sexual assault unit since 2019. “We do try to work together. For example, we try to make it so that our victims only have to talk to one person, so they only have to come in and tell their story one time.”

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“Title IX is not just, like, a women’s rights issue. It’s everybody’s issue,” Adams says, and Wu agrees, describing an “extraordinarily large group within our community, many of them male-identifying, who see these issues come up, especially within our administration, and they hear the conversations, but they do not feel that it a ects them.”

e impacts of sexual violence don’t stop at the victims, Alyssa says—it also disturbs “everyone that surrounds them and cares about them.”

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Francis, the Title IX coordinator, hopes new community stakeholders will apply to the advisory council. e Biden administration’s new Title IX reg ulations are currently in an open comment period, and the nal publication is anticipated later this year. “Once we have a better idea of what those regu lations will look at, then the council will be a part of identifying and having conversations around impacts to our policies,” Francis explains.

Peer-to-peer support opportunities also exist. SPAN and MESA (Moving to End Sexual Assault) have collaborated on an afterschool prevention project, Peers Building Justice, designed “to promote social justice and resist violence in our Anyonecommunities.”inBoulder County can call MESA’s 24-hour hotline (303443-7300) for immediate, additional support in English or Spanish, or text “BRAVE” to 20121. Community is welcome to help “My whole life I’ve heard there are bad people everywhere, and you could get hurt anywhere,” Alyssa says. “Fairview really makes that come to life.” Fairview isn’t the only BVSD school accused of neglecting survivors; schools and districts aren’t the only entities culpable in creating such envi ronments. Students come from di erent homes with di erent cultures, gain exposure to varieties of media and learn about sexual behavior in various ways, including porn and older students. Teachers are starved for resources and time. Wood says, for example, the limitations she anticipates BSB will face this year relate primarily to capacity and scheduling—most kindergarten classrooms structure their days similarly, which challenges educators who could visit multiple classrooms in a day. e organization is hoping for more support and participation from parents to address educational gaps; in addition to an explanatory, bilingual video for parents, BSB has planned a series of virtual “parent talks” to welcome questions or feedback from guardians. (Dates are forthcoming, to be announced on BSB’s website.) Policy advocate Dundon reminds other BVSD parents that Title IX is not federally funded; school districts have limited resources for compliance e orts. “Where a district or the government allocates its limited funds and resources is a declaration of their priorities,” she says. “Our students deserve better.”

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Stories like Gosar’s are common, but most people are far removed from the sources of the food they consume. Organizations like CGC are working to highlight these stories, bringing a sense of literacy and propriety for consumers, growers and everyone in between.

Supporting local farms is important in strengthening communities and reducing the distance food travels to reach someone’s table. With supply chain issues that grew more evident during the early days of the pandem ic, Clark says he saw more people turn to their local farms and mills for produce, dairy and our they couldn’t nd in a grocery store. Restoring that local food network is key to CGC, as well as the mill and bakery at Moxie, he explains, so long as it is accessi ble and “We’reegalitarian.veryconscientious to not be pretentious about it. at’s not my style, that’s not Moxie’s style,” Clark says. “We’re a very community-driven place.” To bring that into balance, echoing Paugh, Clark wants to bring more education and awareness to locally grown goods. Residents can nd a strong local food system in Boulder County, from stalwarts like Black Cat Farms to small farm stands scattered throughout the county selling eggs, grains and produce. One doesn’t need to drive to the San Luis Valley to see each link of CGC in action, when so much is active on the Front Range. e organiza tion is still in its infancy, but Paugh is hopeful about the “Becausefuture. we’re kind of new, this role that the Grain Chain is trying to ll in connecting all these dots, there are all these gaps within our food sys tem,” Paugh says. “ ere are a lot of places for work to be done, so it’s going to keep us busy.” food

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“ e start of it was getting farm-fresh grain, which had been hard for me to do up to that point,” Clark says. “From there we met a variety of other farmers, encouraged some farmers in Colorado and neighboring states to consider planting heritage grains for Moxie.”

Mountain Mama used to deliver stone-ground ours as far north as Denver, supplying mom-and-pop stores with locally grown grain back in the ’80s, but the growth of natural food grocers like Whole Foods and Vitamin Cottage saw those shops close. Gosar’s family eventually sold the farm where he grew up, he says, and the family that bought it still grows grain for them. Other grains come in from small family farms throughout the valley, milled by Gosar and sent out to bakeries and small grocery stores in the region.e demand for wheat skyrocketed during the pandemic, Gosar explains, a demand now exacerbat ed by Russia’s war with Ukraine. e need for more grain has run afoul of rising water costs and drought conditions for farmers in the valley, he adds, but they are surviv ing through the stress and unpredictability of crop yields.“I’m all in. I like it when systems get shaken up,” Gosar says. “I think there’s an opportunity. We’ve gained customers and a lot of visibility from all the people baking in their home kitchens.”

“ ere’s so much Grain Chain activity ourish ing in Boulder County, a huge part of our mem bership is in that area,” Paugh says. “Yet so many of the grains used throughout Colorado are actually sourced in the San Luis Valley.” In Boulder County and along the Front Range, CGC has members like Troubadour Maltings in Fort Collins. Troubadour malts the grains, like an heirloom White Sonoran Wheat, used in whiskey made by Dry Land Distillers in Longmont, another CGC member. at grain is grown on Arnusch Farms in Keenesburg, a mere 40 miles away from Longmont. “I think it’s really special to know you’re eating something that’s actually supporting our communi ty in Colorado,” Paugh says. “ e more we support it, the more accessible it can be. I think it’s very important that locally sourced foods are accessible, but to get there we need all sectors to be aware of our local capacity.” at awareness can be evidenced in Moxie Bread Company, whose co-founder, Andy Clark, was also a founder of CGC. Clark, who baked for Whole Foods for more than a decade before starting Moxie, was teaching a baking class focused on heirloom and whole grains when he was ap proached about joining the CGC board of directors as the nonpro t was forming. “Grain School are these folks passionate about local food systems, healthy foods and preserving the old ways,” Clark says. “So the [CGC] really percolated out of that.”

Moxie had already been procuring grains from family farms and milling fresh our before CGC o cially formed, Clark says; so it was easy enough for him to step into the role of board chair man.When Clark rst opened Moxie, he de veloped a partnership with a farm in western Kansas, connecting the farm to both the miller and baker, and vice versa. Clark and his family would visit to help with the harvest directly.

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On the horizon, storm clouds roll in over the San Luis Valley, the occasional ash of lightning painting the edge of the sky. e weather provides palpable relief from the late July heat, while the promise of rain is a blessing for farm ers in the notoriously arid region. A few dozen people stand in a eld of barley, beside the local farmer who grew it. e group is part of Grain School in the Field, a collaboration between University of Colo rado-Colorado Springs (UCCS), the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union (RMFU) and the Colorado Grain Chain (CGC). Grain School in the Field o ers a twoday immersive education course in the intri cacies of San Luis Valley’s community and food systems, highlighting the relationships between growers, producers and consumers. e idea that food should be community, not commodity, is one of the driving motivations of CGC, a nonpro t focused on restoring heirloom grain diversity and building connec tions between the land and the people who sustain“Fromit. the beginning until now, the mission is to strengthen those connections between farmers, millers and end consumers, to really lift up Colorado’s local grain economy,” says Audrey Paugh, marketing specialist for CGC. Later, Grain School in the Field would bring its cohort of curious individuals, educators and researchers to Mountain Mama Milling in Monte Vista. Run by Kris Gosar, the mill is a generational a air. Gosar took over from his parents, now shar ing responsibilities with the next generation. e stone ground our mill still produces thousands of pounds of fresh our for the San Luis Valley and beyond.“My parents believed in growing great grains and milling whole grain our,” Gosar says. “ at’s what they believed in, that’s what we started with, that’s where we’re at.”

Turning content into conversation One of the upsides of Sight & Sound’s poll is that the results are a starting point. I became aware of Sight & Sound’s top 10 after the 2002 results were published. Nine I’d seen, so I sought out the blind spot: Yasujirô Ozu’s remarkable Tokyo Story It opened a door in my soul. When the 2012 results were published, Sight & Sound ran the top 10 alongside the top 100 vote-getters. A few weeks later, Sight & Sound posted all 2,045 nominees. Titles leaped off the page and into my queue: The Mirror, Shoah, Touki Bouki, The Color of Pomegranates, Barry Lyndon—the list wentOneon. of the thrills in anticipating Sight & Sound’s 2022 poll is the thought of how many movies I will en counter because of their inclusion. There’s a chance that this year’s poll will further codify the cinematic canon by retaining the same titles and flmmakers it always has. There’s also a chance that this year’s poll will tear all that down in favor of a new list that moves cinematic appreciation out of the 20th century. Either way, the poll—in its traditional 10 titles and expanded version, whatever count that may be—is destined to launch a thousand reactions, corrections and Whetherappreciations.itwas Oakley’s aim to encapsulate the history of the seventh art or to entice viewers into cinematic exploration with his “Quiz on Film Classics,” it appears he accomplished both.

Cinema 101 2022: The year cinephilia bottomed out. And then rose again. by Michael J. Casey

TOP: Bicycle Thieves (1948) follows a poor father searching in postWorld War II Rome for his stolen bicycle.

Iguess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the constant, almost jubilant, belittlement cinema received by the very ceremony created to champion it. “Here at the Oscars, where movie lovers unite and watch TV,” host Wanda Sykes said in a scripted intro. “They weren’t all great,” host Amy Schumer said of the nominated movies. “I didn’t see many—any of them. I didn’t seeAnimationthem.” was maligned as mere kiddie fair, a handful of FanFavoritethatcarpet,walkingthehandedawardsproductionwereoutwhilestarswerestilltheredandtherewaswhole#Oscarsthing.Allthis

Cinema 101 I’ve been writing about movies for over a decade now. Along the way, I’ve been asked countless times what the best movie is (Citizen Kane is the easy answer, and maybe the correct one) and what my favorite movie is (changes frequently, it might be Kane these days). Then there are the questions of what to watch, be it what’s in theaters now or where to start with a particular flmmaker, genre or industry. I adore these questions because the options are so varied. Sure, I want you to watch the best movies, but I’d rather you watch the movies that make you excited to watch moreSo,movies.inanticipation of Sight & Sound’s poll and the spirit of students returning to school, I give you my list, Cinema 101: A trip through 141 years of movies . Some of the titles are familiar. Some you might find peculiar. All, I think, are worth your time.

BOTTOM: Federico Fellini’s surrealist 8 /1/2 won multiple Oscars after its release in ’63.

after two years of a pandemic that disrupted productions, neutered releases and shuttered the very spaces moviegoers called home for over a wereNotcentury.thatthingsthatrosy in the frst place. A rise in fanboy culture poisoned the well, turning casual discourse into coordinated toxic affairs, while the streaming wars eroded the viability of communal conversation. Back before the launch of Netfix Instant in 2007, the DVD mailing service offered a massive catalog of flms from far and wide, old and new, for a relatively low price and the convenience of having the movies come to you. Before that was Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and a battery of mom-and-pop rental shops across the U.S. Before them were flm societies, second-run theaters and art house cinemas connect ed to museums and universities. It might take some doing, but the best movies—new and old, mainstream and underground, domestic and foreign—were never out ofThatreach.was then. These days, streamers’ catalogs are so limited that the typical viewer subscribes to multiple services to keep pace. Once were the days when even the most casual moviegoer could watch the best picture nominees. Now you’re SOL if you have a Hulu account but not Apple TV+. Has cinephilia ever felt this fractured? Darkest before the dawn Yet there is hope, and it comes in the shape of a British flm magazine. This November, Sight & Sound will announce its once-a-decade poll of the greatest flms of all time. Invited critics, programmers, academics, distributors and writers from around the globe submit ballots of what they consider to be the 10 greatest movies— with the defnition of the word “greatest” left up to each individual. From these ballots, Sight & Sound tabulate the frequency of each title to determine a list approaching defnitive. Offcially, the tradition dates back to 1952 when 63 critics dubbed Vittorio De Sica’s neo-realist masterpiece, Bicycles Thieves, the best. Ten years later, 70 respondents to Sight & Sound’s call placed Citizen Kane on the pedestal, a spot it would occupy until 2012, when 846 respondents from 73 countries knocked Kane out in favor of Vertigo. Interestingly, the roots of the poll can be found in a 1941 Sight & Sound column, “Quiz on Film Clas sics.” There, writer Charles Oakley opined that the larger moviegoing audience lacked critical apprecia tion. “They have little understanding of why they liked or did not like the flm—partly, no doubt, because their reactions to it were mainly emotional; but partly also because they have never been given any guidance on how to like flms,” Oakley wrote. His solution: Teach flm appreciation. “This can be done by selecting, say, 10 outstanding fction flms for screening as ‘classics’ in schools, and by preparing a textbook for teachers.” Oakley was on to something; his suggestion of a top 10 is part of a long lineage of list-making and discussion. The titles Oakley chose elicited passion ate letters from readers, enough that Sight & Sound decided to make more of it. Eight decades later, here we are.

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100. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 101.Early1939)shorts: Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (Muy bridge, 1878); Traffc Crossing Leeds Bridge (Le Prince, 1888); The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Lumière, 1897); A Trip to the Moon (Méliès, 1902); The Great Train Robbery (Porter, 1903); The Dancing Pig (1907); Fall ing Leaves (Guy-Blaché, 1912); Suspense (Weber/ Smalley, 1913); Gertie the Dinosaur (McCay, 1914) For more, tune into After Image Fridays at 3 p.m., on KGNU: 88.5 FM and online at kgnu.org. Email questions or comments to boulderweekly.com.editorial@

LEFT TO RIGHT: James Stewart and Kim Novak in Vertigo (1958); Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941); Tokyo Story (1953) starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963) After Life (Kore-eda, 1998) 3. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 4.1979)AnAutumn Afternoon (Ozu, 5.1962)Babette’s Feast (Axel, 1987) The Battle of the Centu ry (Bruckman, 1927) 7. Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 9.1948)Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 10.1967)Born in Flames (Borden, 11.1983)Bowling for Colum bine (Moore, 2002) Breathless (Godard, 1960) 13. Cameraperson (Johnson, 14.2016)Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) 15.Charade (Donen, 1963) 16. Chimes at Mid night (Welles, 1965) 17. Chinatown (Polanski, 18.1974)Citizen Kane (Welles, 19.1941)Come and See (Klimov, 20.1985)Cries and Whispers (Berg man, 1972) 21. Day for Night (Truffaut, 22.1973)Do the Right Thing (Lee, 23.1989)Dont Look Back (Penne baker, 1967) 24. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 25.1944)Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004) 26. The Five Obstructions (von Trier/Leth, 2003) 27. The General (Keaton/ Bruckman, 1926) 28. Girlfriends (Weill, 1978) 29. The Gleaners and I (Varda, 30.2000)The Godfather (Coppola, 31.1972)Gone With the Wind (Flem ing, 1939) 32. GoodFellas (Scorsese, 33.1990)Grand Illusion (Renoir, 34.1937)Grave of the Firefies (Takahata, 1988) 35. The Great Dictator (Chap lin, 1940) 36. A Hard Day’s Night (Lester, 37.1964)Hiroshima Mon Amour (Renais, 1959) 38. The House is Black (Far rokhzad, 1963) 39. House of Flying Dag gers (Yimou, 2004) 40. The Hustler (Rossen, 1961) 41. Inside Llewyn Da vis (Coen/Coen, 2013) 42. Inside Out (Docter, 2015) 43. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975) 44. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Brux elles (Akerman, 1975) 45. Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 46.1955)La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 47.1960)The Lady Eve (Sturges, 48.1941)The Last Waltz (Scorsese, 49.1978)The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Press burger, 1943) 50. The Long Goodbye (Alt man, 1973) 51. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen, 2003) 52. Léon Morin, Priest (Mel ville, 1961) 53. Mad Max: Fury Road (Mill er, 54.2015)AMan Escaped (Bresson, 55.1956)The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Reitherman/ Lounsbery, 1977)

What’s missing? Plenty. I started this list with about 3,000 titles, so you can imagine the sheer depth of what was left off. As I culled, I wondered if a second list—per haps called “So Dear to My Heart”—might be necessary. But a second would lead to a third, a fourth and so on. Like the universe, cinema is expanding. The beauty is in the sharing. Cinema is never dead, but love for the form and interest in its ability to com municate waxes and wanes in cycles. Today feels low, but I think tomorrow holds promise. As long as we keep watching and talking, things are bound to get better.

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BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE l AUGUST 18, 2022 l 15 But I suppose that’s up for you to decide. A few notes Defning what is and is not a movie in 2022 can be tricky. Is it exhibition? Duration? Style? Some serialized shows (Twin Peaks: The Return, True Detective, etc.) look and behave like long movies. Read reviews, and you’ll see the word “cinematic” tossed around like it means something. Then there are those works that debut at flm festivals, move to streaming and win Emmys. More still are produced by streaming services, play a theater for one week in New York or LA and get nominat ed for 11 Oscars. The defnitions are bleaching. To streamline matters, I’ve chosen movies that most will recognize as moviegoing experiences. Krzysztof Kieślowski’s incomparable Dekalog may have played theaters here and there, but it was made for Polish television and is most likely to be experienced by anyone discovering it today as 10 separate episodes. It’s incred ible, but you won’t fnd it listed here. You will, however, fnd Kieślowki’s magnifcent Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White and Red) listed as one. Yes, they are three separate movies, and you may watch them as such, but I fnd it impossible to think of one without the others. Not so with Star Wars and The Godfather—one title for each franchise. My rules, you see, are arbitrary. I’ve also grouped a handful of early shorts as the 101st entry. A couple of them can stand as individual works shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of the list, but I fnd that watching them together provides a much deeper understanding of cinema’s early days. You will see a visual language form before your very eyes.

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56. A Matter of Life and Death (Powell/Pressburger, 57.1946)Merrily We Go to Hell (Arzner, 1932) 58. A Moment of Inno cence (Makhmalbaf, 1996) 59. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 60.2001)My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 61.1936)The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 62.1964)Soleil Ô (Hondo, 1970) 63. On the Bowery (Rogosin, 64.1956)On the Waterfront (Kazan, 65.1954)Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968) 66. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019) 67. The Ox-Bow Inci dent (Wellman, 1942) 68. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) 69. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973) 70. Pharaoh (Kawalerowicz, 71.1966)The Piano (Campion, 1993) 72. Pickpocket (Bresson, 73.1959)Point Blank (Boorman, 74.1967)Police Story (Chan, 1985) 75. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) 76. The Purple Rose of Cai ro (Allen, 1985) 77. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 78.1950)The Red Shoes (Powell/ Pressburger, 1948) 79. The Searchers (Ford, 80.1956)Shoah (Lanzmann, 1985) 81. Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 82.1959)Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 83.2001)Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) 84. Steamboat Willie (Iwerks, 85.1928)Summer With Moni ka (Bergman, 1953) 86. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927) 87. Tangerine (Baker, 2015) 88. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 89.1976)The Three Colors Trilogy (Kieślowski, 1993-94) 90. Touki Bouki (Mambéty, 91.1973)The Tree of Life (Malick, 92.2011)Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel, 1929)

93. The Up Documenta ries (Almond/Apted, 196494.2018)Vagabond (Varda, 1985) 95. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) 96. Vivre sa vie (Godard, 1962) 97. Wadjda (al-Mansour, 98.2012)Wall-E (Stanton, 2008) 99. The Watermelon Wom an (Dunye, 1996)

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Cheesman was the “pauper cemetery,” Swanson says. “So there was really nobody that wanted to exhume those bodies or claim those bodies, because most of those people didn’t have family, or anybody that really cared.”

What’d I Miss? Daze of Our Lives by R. Alan Brooks and Cori Redford. A collection of comics from the weekly Colorado Sun feature, recognized by The Society of Professional Journalists as one of the top editorial comic strips in the Rocky Mountain region.

In this collection of stories, 14 writers with a connec tion to the city explore the underside of different areas in the greater Denver area, from Aurora to Lakewood and many parts in between.

Swanson’s story is about Cheesman Park, which was once a cemetery, and a young woman, disguised as a boy, who helps to excavate the bodies when the city decides a park would be more attractive.

“They also wanted people from different back grounds,” she says. “I did a lot of digging around to fnd who might ft that criteria.”

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The detail of human remains being removed and placed into child-size caskets was taken from real life.

The postcard version of Denver might look like a brilliant orange and blue sunset gleaming over the Rockies, beautiful young people in parks walking their dogs, everybody a mile high. Look a little deeper, or just take a drive down Colfax Avenue, and a different city appears.

The dark underbellyofDenver Noir anthology gets down in the gutter of the Mile High City by Bart Schaneman

It’s not just a book about hard-boiled, white male detectives. A wide swath of the people of Denver are represented. Protagonists include Native American lawyers, queer women and Latinx families.When Akashic approached Swanson to edit the anthology, the publishing company asked her to include a mix of established writers and others who are early in their career. They also asked for a balance of male and female writers, as well as mystery and literary styles.

As far as themes that emerged from the collection, Swanson says she wasn’t surprised that a handful of the stories were set on or around Colfax Avenue, where prostitution, drug dealing and violence were once com monplace (and not unheard of now). The section about things to do in Denver when you’re young came out of a feeling that the frontier nature of the city has always been a beacon for youth.

W hen I was asked by Boulder Weekly to rec ommend five favorite books, I couldn’t resist sharing titles by these amazing Denver Noir authors. In addition to these recommenda tions, make sure to check out novels by Denver Noir authors Mario Acevedo, Amy Drayer, Peter Heller, Barbara Nickless, and Erika T. Wurth, as well as stories and essays by Francelia Belton, D.L. Cordero, and Twanna LaTrice Hill. Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden. Set on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota (with scenes in Denver), this is the story of Virgil Wounded Horse, enforcer of vigilante justice, who must come to his own aid when his young nephew is hospitalized after a heroin overdose, and Virgil sets out to fnd those respon sible for drug trade on the reservation. A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian. A beautiful story that explores friendship, mothers and daughters, and coming-of-age, featuring fve girls growing up in a slum in Bangalore, India. Angels In the Wind by Manuel Ramos. Nominated for the 2022 Shamus Award, this compelling P.I. story also has a personal, heartfelt touch, as Denver-based investigator Gus Corral searches the Eastern Colorado Plains for his cousin’s missing 17-year-old son.

She decided the best person to tell the story was from the perspective of one of the young gravediggers, a fctional character. It doesn’t get much darker, more noir, than a story about digging up skeletons.

“Denver is, in a lot of ways, a city of young people,” Swanson says. “That theme came into play throughout a lot of the book.”

The second version is the one that shows up in Denver Noir, an anthology out this summer by Akashic Books. Akashic has been publishing this series since 2004, with more than 100 city noir titles so far.

The collection was edited by Denver writer and editor Cynthia Swanson. She says Denver makes for a good city as a setting for noir writing because of that juxtaposi tion between light and dark. “We’re living in this beautiful location with 300 days of sunshine a year, and yet there is a darkness to this city,” she “There’ssays.adarkness to every city, but there’s a particular darkness and grittiness to Denver that a lot of people don’t see.” Peter Heller, who has a story in the collection about a murderous paddleboarder on Sloan’s Lake, agreed with that assessment. He pointed out that although Denver can be photogenic, it’s not always what it seems. “In places that do appear like postcards there’s always a dark underbelly,” he says. “And it really helps, if you’re going to write noir stories, if there are all sorts of crosscurrents of different cultures, different demographics, different classes, when the motivations of the population in the city are all criss going all sorts of different directions andToclashing.”buildon that, Erika Wurth, another Denver-based writer, says that the marginalized populations that are in confict with much of the change happening in the “There has always been a large Latinx and/or Native American population that just doesn’t get talked about much under the veneer of the hiking, biking, infux from California,” she says. “What makes it so perfect for noir today is the dynamic has increased tenfold,” Wurth adds. “Houses have become so intensely expensive, and [the] city has become tremendously desirable, and so the class stratif cation has grown huge.” Wurth’s story features a Native American private investigator and the now-closed White Horse bar in Lakewood.Thebook is broken into three sections: “The Lon gest, Wickedest Street,” “5,280’” and “Things to To Do in Denver When You’re Young.”

The Fireballer by Mark Stevens. This one is a bit of a cheat, since I haven’t read it yet (releases January 2023). But being a huge fan of Mark’s writing, and with an endorsement from William Kent Krueger that not just recommends but insists that this baseball story is one to read, I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.

There’s murder in Capitol Hill, death and jazz at Five Points and even a comic—think a chapter in a graphic novel—about a shooting in Baker. The stories are consistently dark and violent—what you would expect from a noir book. Where it goes further is in the characters, cultures and milieus it explores.

Cynthia Swanson’s book recommendations

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n Connor Hall: Outliving It —The Healing Power of Nature & Adventure 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Tickets:Broadway.Free, neptunemountaineer ing.com

Conor Hall is an avid outdoors man and cancer survivor from southwest Colorado. Hall has worked in the Colorado government for more than seven years and now leads the Colorado Offce of Out door Recreation Industry. He will speak at Neptune Mountaineering about his experience battling cancer at a young age and the role that nature and adventure played in his healing. n Boulder Creek Hometown Festival Aug. 19-21, Central Park and Downtown Boulder. The 23rd Annual Boulder Creek Hometown Festival will bring together people all over Boulder County. Live music is in the Bandshell throughout the festival, with Wash Park performing on Friday night and Soul School on Saturday night. The LETR Starlight Classic Car and Motorcycle Show, that generates support for Special Olympics Colorado, will be on Sunday. The Great Zucchini Race, arts and crafts exhibitors and a craft beer garden and food court wraps up some of the main attractions.

n Lafayette Peach Festival 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, Old Town Lafayette. The Lafayette Peach Festival brings peaches from Palisade, Colorado, to your backyard. Peach trucks will be on three main intersections at Public Road—at Cleveland, East Chester and Kimbark streets—with more than 30,000 pounds of peaches and nearly 600 pans of pies and cobblers. Attendees will have their choice of activities from face painting and balloon sculpting to exploring food vendors and antique dealers.

Boulder author Giovanni Ruscitti will speak about and sign his book, Cobblestones, Conversations, and Corks: A Son’s Discovery of His Italian Heritage, on Aug. 23 at Boulder Bookstore. In this book, Ruscitti writes about reliving his parents’ struggles during and after World War II, when they were forced to leave their Italian village because of Nazi invasion in 1943.

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BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE l AUGUST 18, 2022 l 21 For more event listings, go online at boulderweekly.com/events n WelcomeFest 2022 5:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, Farrand Field, Universi ty of Colorado Boulder. Tickets: Free for CU Boulder programcouncil.com/wf22students, CU is organizing its annual WelcomeFest for the frst time in three years to help students celebrate the upcoming year. Along with vendors, live musical performances from Flux Pavilion, Mike Dimes, Zero, Don Jamal and Chaysn highlight the event.

n Author Talk: Giovanni Ruscitti–‘Cobblestones, Conversations, and Corks’ 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, Boulder Bookstore 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderbookstore.net

StrongMillerdirectorsfeaturingKatrinaandBeret 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, chautauqua.comTickets:GloryAuditorium,Chautauqua198MorningDrive,Boulder.$15, This is [Not] Who We Are is a documentary flm that analyzes the gap between Boulder’s self-im age and the historical and contemporary lived experiences of its Black citizens. In addition to the flm showing, the evening will include song, poetry and a post-screening panel discussion with directors Katrina Miller and Beret Strong.

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21: You know more about how karma works than all the other signs. Scorpio-style intelligence typically has a fine intuitive grasp of how today’s realities evolved out of the deep patterns and rhythms of the past. But that doesn’t mean you perfectly understand how karma works. And in the coming weeks, I urge you to be eager to learn more. Become even savvier about how the law of cause and effect impacts the destinies of you and your allies. Meditate on how the situations you are in now were influenced by actions you took once upon a time. Ruminate on what you could do in the near future to foster good karma and diminish weird karma.

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22: Cancerian poet Danusha Laméris discovered that earthworms have taste buds all over their bodies. Now she loves to imagine she’s giving them gifts when she drops bits of apples, beets, avocados, melons, and carrot tops into the compost bin. “I’d always thought theirs a menial life, eye less and hidden, almost vulgar.” But now that she understands “they bear a pleasure so sublime,” she wants to help the worms fulfill their destinies. I mention this, Cancerian, because I suspect you may have comparable turnarounds in the coming weeks. Long-held ideas may need adjustments. Incomplete understandings will be filled in when you learn the rest of the story. You will receive a stream of interesting new information that changes your mind, mostly in enjoyable ways.

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APRILTAURUS20-MAY 20: A blogger named Chaconia writes, “I’ve cultivated a lifetime of being low maintenance and easy-going, and now I’ve decided I’m done with it. Demanding Me is born today.” I’m giving you temporary permission to make a similar declaration, Taurus. The astrological omens suggest that in the coming weeks, you have every right to be a charming, enchanting, and generous version of a demanding person. So I authorize you to be just that. Enjoy yourself as you ask for more of everything.

NOV.SAGITTARIUS22-DEC.21:Kabbalistic writer Simon Jacobson says, “Like a flame, the soul always reaches upward. The soul’s fire wants to defy the confines of life. It cannot tolerate the mediocrity and monotony of sheer materialism. Its passion knows no limits as it craves for the beyond.” That sounds both marvelous and hazardous, right? Jacobson concludes, “Whether the soul’s fire will be a constructive or destructive force is dependent on the person’s motivation.” According to my astrological analysis, your deep motivations are likely to be extra noble and generous in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. So I expect that your soul’s fire will be very constructive.

MAYGEMINI21-JUNE 20: The witch Lisa Chamberlain writes about the magical properties of colors. About brown, she says it “represents endurance, solidity, grounding and strength.” She adds that it’s used in magic to enhance “balance, concentra tion, material gain, home, and companion animals.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, the upcoming weeks should be a deeply brown time for you Geminis. To move your imagination in a righteous direction, have fun wearing clothes in shades of brown. Grace your environment with things that have the hues of chestnut, umber, mahogany, sepia, and burnt sienna. Eat and drink caramel, toffee, cinnamon, almonds, coffee and chocolate.

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by Rob Brezsny MARCHARIES21-APRIL 19: In the coming weeks, I urge you to flee from stale and rigid certainty. Rebel against dogmatic attitudes and arrogant opinions. Be skeptical of unequivocal answers to nuanced questions. Instead, dear Aries, give your amused reverence to all that’s mysterious and enigmatic. Bask in the glimmer of intriguing paradoxes. Draw inspiration and healing from the fertile unknown. For inspiration, write out this Mary Oliver poem and carry it with you: “Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company with those who say ‘Look!’ and laugh in aston ishment, and bow their heads.”

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22: Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle writes, “I look back on past versions of myself with such love and ten derness. I want to embrace myself at different parts of my life.” I hope you’re inspired by her thoughts as you carry out the following actions: 1. Create an altar filled with treasures that symbolize major turning points in your destiny. 2. Forgive your self for what you imagine to be old errors and ignorance. 3. Summon memories of the persons you were at ages 7, 12 and 17, and write a kind, thoughtful message to each. 4. Literally kiss seven different photos of your face from earlier in your life. 5. Say “thank you” and “bless you” to the self you were when you succeeded at two challenging tests in the past.

DEC.CAPRICORN22-JAN.19: In the Spansh language, there’s the idiom pensando en la inmortalidad del cangrejo . Its literal translation is “thinking about the immortality of the crab.” It applies to a person engaged in creative daydreaming—her imagination wandering freely in hopes of rousing innovative solutions to practical dilemmas. Other languages have similar idioms. In Finnish, istun ja mietin syntyjä syviä means “wondering about the world’s early origins.” Polish has marzyć o niebieskich migdałach , or “dreaming about blue almonds.” I encourage you to enjoy an abundance of such explorations in the coming days, Capricorn. You need to fantasize more than usual.

22: Whenever you are contemplating a major decision, I hope you raise questions like these: 1. Which option shows the most self-respect? 2. Which path would be the best way to honor yourself? 3. Which choice is most likely to help you fulfill the purposes you came to earth to carry out? 4. Which course of action would enable you to express your best gifts? Are there questions you would add, Virgo? I expect the coming months will require you to generate key decisions at a higher rate than usual, so I hope you will make intensive use of my guiding inquiries, as well as any others you formulate.

JAN.AQUARIUS20-FEB.18: My Aquarian reader Georgie Lee wrote to tell me what it’s like being an Aquarius. I offer it to you because you are potentially at the peak of expressing the qualities she names. She says, “Accept that you don’t really have to under stand yourself. Be at peace with how you constantly ramble, swerve, and weave to become more of yourself. Appreciate how each electric shift leads to the next electric shift, always changing who you are forever. Within the churning, ever-yearn ing current, marvel at how you remain eternal, steady, and solid—yet always evolving, always on a higher ground before.”

FEB.PISCES19-MARCH 20: Here’s a good way build your vibrancy: Use your emotional intelligence to avoid swimming against strong currents for extended periods. Please note that swim ming against strong currents is fine, even advisable, for brief phases. Doing so boosts your stamina and fosters your trust in your resilience. But mostly, I recommend you swim in the same direction as the currents or swim where the water is calm and currentless. In the coming weeks, I suspect you can enjoy many freestyle excursions as you head in the same direction as vigorous currents.

JULYLEO 23-AUG. 22: You should never allow yourself to be tamed by others. That advice is always apropos for you Leos, and even more crucial to heed in the coming weeks. You need to cultivate maximum access to the raw, primal sources of your life energy. Your ability to thrive depends on how well you identify and express the beautiful animal within you. Here’s my only caveat: If you imagine there may be value in being tamed a little, in harnessing your brilliant beast, do the taming your self. And assign that task to the part of you that possesses the wildest wisdom.

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Q: I’m a 36-year-old man. If I get too psyched out to stay hard for (extremely rare) anal with my wife, should I just get some Viagra?

A: Well, that depends. Does your wife like long anal sex sessions? If the answer to that question is yes, then Viagra could help. Because in addition to helping you get and stay hard, Viagra and other ED meds can delay orgasm. But if your wife doesn’t like long anal sex sessions—if she generally wants you to hurry the fuck up and get the assfucking over with—last ing longer could make those already rare anal sex sessions rarer still. Maybe try a cockring instead? Q: Tips for helping a penis-haver last longer when penetrating other than cock rings? (Cockrings are great, but they don’t help with longevity.) A: Cockrings are great; I recommended them to another reader fve second ago. But while a snug-but-not-too-tight cock ring can help keep a penis-haver’s penis hard by gently restricting blood fow out of the penis-haver’s penis, cockrings don’t make penis-havers “last longer,” e.g., they don’t delay ejaculation. (Cockring 101: Gentle restriction is good; trapping blood in the penis is not. Cockrings should be snug, not tight.) If you’ve already tried all the standard-issue advice to treat premature ejaculation (which I’ve covered before and don’t have the space to rere-re-rehearse in a Quickies column), an ED med like Viagra might help (for the reasons mentioned above); a low-dose SSRI is also an effective treatment for premature ejaculation.

A: If people are doing that—if people are hiding cameras on popular hiking trails— well, then you should indeed be wary. Hike the beaten path, don’t fuck on it.

A: If you truly live on a small island— small enough that everyone knows every one else’s business but large enough to have more than one trans sex worker— then your ex-boyfriend’s wife is gonna fnd out sooner or later. But even if it means she fnds out a little later, it would be bet ter if she found out from someone other than you. Assuming your ex’s wife doesn’t already know and approve, if the bearer of bad news is a bitter ex—or someone who can easily be cast as one—your ex-boyfriend will have a much easier time convincing his wife that it isn’t true. Better she should hear it from the vicar.

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A: You’ve either had a terrible run of bad luck—assuming you’ve dated more than ten men—or you’ve set your standards impossibly high. Some food for thought: perhaps you think you want a long-term relationship because you were told that’s what you’re supposed to want—you were told that’s what all good people want—but you actually don’t want a long-term relationship. They don’t make you happy. But instead of telling yourself that you’re a good person who prefers owningtotage—becausedialedstandardsalone,relationshipsshort-termand/orbeingyou’vesetyoursohigh—you’vethemuptosaboyouwantbealone.Andinsteadofthataboutyourself, you fnd fault in the men you P.S.date.There’s no settling down without settling for.

Q: I’m a 40-year-old female, cis-het. I have very discerning tastes in men, and always end up alone. Any way to be more open without sacrifcing my standards?

Q: For those that like to fuck outside on hikes and while camping… should we be wary of trail cams or go-pros people are hiding in trees for whatever reason? How to spot them?

P.S. Whenever someone writes “pe nis-haver” my slightly dyslexic brain reads “penis-halver,” as in, someone who cuts a penis in half—which some people in the body modifcation community have done, and bon(e) appetit to anyone brave enough to do a Goo gle image search.

Q: An ex-boyfriend is seeing trans pros titutes. Do I tell his current wife IF an op portunity to do so should arise? And it will, as we live on a small island. I would’ve wanted to know if we were still together. Should she not be offered the same?

by John Lehndorff Colorado’s boom in breezy, island-themed eateries and bars raises a question: Whose culture is it anyway?

Authentic Polynesian culture does not include coconut bras, grass skirts or frozen blue drinks. And, let’s face it, after the Charlottesville horror, tiki torches have lost some of their backyard appeal. For starters, “Tiki” is a word from New Zealand’s Māori culture for an image or amulet of a human fgure representing an ancestor. In other words, it’s a spiritual symbol. Should it be used on a glass used to drink high-alcohol cocktails? Tiki as a concept was invented, or appropriated, by West Coast bar owners in the early part of the 20th century. That means our parents and grandparents were knocking back mai tais back in the day.

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WHAT EXACTLY IS A ‘TIKI?’

Tiki culture is also embraced at Adrift Tiki Bar in Denver, Castaways Cove in Breckenridge and Denver’s Hell or High Water Tiki bar, which offers this self-de scription: “Picture a haunted pirate ship that once housed a gaggle of magnifcently gay pirates, now marooned on a phallically mystifying, bird-infested, tropical island of ill repute.”

Yes, I like piña coladas. Really I’m also a fan of poke—the raw fsh salad—as well as SPAM musubi (that’s sea weed-wrapped teriyaki-seared canned meat and rice) and Hawaiian lunch plates with KaluaLikepork.virtually everyone, I’ve fantasized occasionally about ditching the demands and moving to a tropical island to sip chilled beverages all day and live the mythical Margaritaville/Tiki/ SpongeBob lifestyle. After the pandemic trials and traumas, it’s easy to understand the appeal of Tiki bars, which provide an immersive Meow Wolf-like escape centered around sociability and strong drinks. That’s why Tiki spots are popping up all along the Front Range. Jungle, a “Tiki shack” bar and burger spot at 2018 10th St. in Boulder, offers a pineapple and onion ring-topped jungle burger, a Krabby Patty crab cake sandwich and various tropically themed drinks. You are immersed in a maritime world the moment you walk into Swaylo’s Tiki Restaurant and Bar. The eatery was recently opened at 1315 Dry Creek Road in Longmont. Swaylo’s menu includes ahi poke, Hawaiian fried rice, smoked octo pus tostadas and signature libations like hurricanes, blue Hawaiians and Cuba libre. More island-infuenced cuisine can be tasted at Waiki ki Poke (Broomfeld), Rocky Fin Poke Bar (Westminster), Ohana Island Kitchen (Denver), Ohana Grille (Edgewater) and at the area’s longest-serving island eatery, L&L Hawaiian Barbecue (Aurora).

While the inherent racism in foods associated with African American life has recently been called out and Aunt Jemima “retired,” Tiki culture has seemingly escaped criticism. Maybe it’s because there are so few Pacifc Islanders in the population or because Tiki is such a fantasy mishmash of referenc es, symbols and foods extracted from unrelated cultures across the globe.

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THE JULIA CHILD OF TIKI FOOD AND DRINK

You can sample authentic Hawaiian and Polynesian fare at several local eateries such as Kealoha’s BBQ (16th Street Mall), feldTRIP (Denver) and Today Hawaiian BBQ in Thornton. Operated by Shauna Medeiros-Tuilaepa and Cornelius Tuilaepa, No Ke Aloha in Aurora dishes the simple classic dishes ranging from loco moco to coconut shrimp and pulehu steak served with rice and mac salad.

All this Tiki talk caused me to fnally open my copy of the original Tiki bible I inher ited from my parents. Published in 1946, Trader Vic’s Book of Food and Drink (Doubleday) was a bestseller penned by Victor Bergeron. The bartender, bar owner and rum distributor traveled through the South Pacifc before World War II.

Trader Vic’s Book of Food and Drink is bursting at the seams with racist language, misogynistic comments and offensive illustrations. Bergeron’s writing voice is very male, rat pack-y and built around the desire to drink overpowering cocktails with then-unfamiliar names like the mojito. Trader Vic’s recommends a drink called “The Fog Cutter”: “You can get pretty stinking on these, no fooling.” Bergeron explains his beverage preference by writing, “I like rum. I like its history, too. … (Rum was) once the favorite libation of pirates, sailors, massacring Indians, beachcombers and loose women.”

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Swaylo’s Tiki Restaurant and Bar in Longmont donates 10% of its profts toward cleaning up the Great Pacifc Garbage Patch.

In his snooty forward to Trader Vic’s, book critic Lucius Beebe’s notes that Bergeron “has contrived to make Oriental food not only sound enchanting but also extremely edible.”

The folks at Longmont’s Whistling Boar catering will host a special dinner Sept. 8 at Left Hand Creek Farm in honor of a friend lost a year ago to suicide. The fare will in clude appetizers and a three-course dinner. Proceeds from the meal and silent auction beneft Colie’s Closet, a nonproft focused on preventing teen suicide. whistlingboar. com/farm-dinners … Coming soon: Suti + Co Scandinavian Shop and Cafe, 2031 16th St.. … Longmont’s Fatworks is offering a handy new artisan food: ready-to-eat cagefree fully cooked duck leg conft. Words to Chew On “Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.” —Novelist and critic Jim Harrison John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, streaming at KGNU.org). Email him at nibbles@BoulderWeekly.com. Tuesday-Saturday 10am-10pm Sunday 10am-8:30pm Pearl Street, Boulder, CO

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Throughout his survey of global islands and their cocktails, Bergeron delivers some hard-to-swallow white colonial tidbits. For instance, he notes: “I’ve discovered that those gentle natives, the Polynesians, know how to have fun in simple, unaffected ways. …They are not immoral but, according to our standards, they just ain’t got any.” He states that Cuba’s economy was destroyed by ending slavery. Some Colorado establishments understand the Tiki dilemma and try to address the giant Easter Island moai in the room.

Shrunken Head Tiki in Colorado Springs notes on its website,”We have the utmost respect for the origin of Tiki and our name itself intends to pay homage to our genuine esteem and true admiration.”

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Tasting real Polynesian fare

Finally, in researching my 1946 edition of Trader Vic’s Book of Food and Drink, I discovered that it may be worth more than $150, so it did turn out to be an inheritance of sorts. (To try a Trader Vic’s cocktail recipe, turn to Cuisine, Page 29)

Boulder’s Jungle makes a point of stating on its website: “We don’t appropriate,” and the business avoids the more inappropriate cultural references.

This is an important culinary book. Bergeron’s Americanized recipes for dishes like “Chinese chicken” and staging a suburban luau was a gateway for Americans to a larger world of tastes and strange ingredients like soy sauce.

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Grossen Bart’s German-style Pilsner is called “Perfect Pils,” so I dropped by the brewery to chat with owner Taylor Wise and brewer Kevin Paquette to fnd out what goes into a perfect Pilsner.“Honestly, it’s the ingredients,” Paquette says. “We use only German ingredients, and you have to get the right yeast strain. From there it’s all about the execution.”

Pilsners are notably crisp and clean, a re freshing beer that’s easy to drink year-round. Grossen Bart’s Perfect Pils hits those notes and then some. The body is light, with a gold en color and clarity to it that certainly adds to the appeal. The mouthfeel rests easy on the tongue, with enough carbonation to bring out the malty, biscuity favors one should expect from a Pilsner. I trust the judges that put the beer through its paces, but I’m inclined to agree.

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The name itself, a fortuitous coincidence, wasn’t even picked by brewery staff. A regu lar customer was sampling it while Wise and Paquette mulled over names. “We were trying to come up with the name and he just looks at us and says, ‘It’s perfect’,” Paquette says. “I thought, why don’t we just call it GB’s Per fect Pils,” Wise adds. “It ended up being pretty perfect, but that was all him. We didn’t actually name it.”

Much ink has been spilled on Colo rado beer, discussing at length hop varietals, yeast strains and an industry that continues to grow. When I took over this column, I had no intention to add to the discourse on beer, yet here I am. I couldn’t help myself. With the Great American Beer Fest just a couple months away, I’ve been preparing. Thinking about what makes a good beer, let alone a perfect one. In an instance of fortunate timing, a local brewery topped a list of the best Pilsners in Colorado, so I thought I’d visit them to fnd out what made it perfect. As part of its blind tasting series, ranking Colorado beers based on merits in an individual class, PorchDrinking.com released its list of the best Pilsners in Colorado. Out of 28 entries, only nine placed in the tasting, and only two of those Pilsners earned “Best in Show,” Denver’s Ratio Beerworks and Longmont’s Grossen Bart Brewery.

cans or bottles in your local liquor store, though a few kegs can be found on tap at bars around the county. Best to stop by the taproom in Long mont to sample Perfect Pils yourself and maybe take a crowler home for later. Email: gmail.comMattmaenpaa@ BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE l AUGUST 18, 2022 l 27 DETAILS: Friendly Mutton Saturday,Party.MärzenChopRelease4p.m.Sept. 3, Grossen Bart Brew ery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont Pouring a perfect Pilsner Grossen Bart’s best-in-show beer, the Perfect Pils by Matt Maenpaa 1085 S Public Rd. Lafayette (303) Tues-Sun:Hours:665-066611a-8:30pClosedMonday Thank You for Voting us Best Asian Fusion Restaurant for 7 years! Best Asian Fusion DINE-IN OR ORDER ON-LINE FOR phocafelafayette.comTAKE-OUT

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Pilsners aren’t Grossen Bart’s only notable brew. Last year, the brewery made it on the Best in Show list for Porch Drinking.com’s blind tasting of Colorado märzens, the German-style lager popular ized by “ThatOktoberfest.waspretty badass,” Wise says. Grossen Bart’s märzen returns in just a few weeks to kick off Colorado’s slate of Oktoberfest festivals, with the beer expected to be released by Sept. 3. The brewery is also returning to the St. Brigit Celtic Festival in Frederick with its Irish red ale. The festival took a break during the pandemic, but returns Sept. 24 with beer and whiskey. “We’ve been the main beer sponsor for that for a few years,” Wise says. “We haven’t decided if we’re going to pull out something classic or try something new.” won’t fnd Bart

It’s a pretty perfect Pilsner. “My rule is to keep it simple,” Paquette says. “Every step that you’re doing, you just pay attention to the details. I think a lot of brewers just overthink it.”

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Santo may boast Boulder’s shortest breakfast menu, yet a steady parade of folks rush in and out of Hosea Rosenberg’s New Mexican eatery on weekday mornings.Iknowthey’re not here for the exceptional Flatirons view from the patio because most walk away with foil-wrapped cylinders and hop on bikes or drive away oblivious to the landscape.Santo’s morning selec tions1)are:Vegetarian breakfast burrito 2) Breakfast burrito with That’smeatit, except for cookies, coffee drinks, juice and aguas frescas. Dozens of Boulder County eateries sell ready-togo breakfast burritos. The prices vary, as does the bur rito size and heat level. Honestly, some are just potatoes and eggs garnished with hot sauce and meat. The Santo breakfast burrito ups the a.m. ante and draws a crowd because of the quality of everything en closed in a large, thin four tortilla. There’s an ideal balance of scrambled eggs, crisply fried tater tots, green chile, red chile, cheese and house-cooked beans. My choice included house-made chorizo sausage and I added a side of real roasted green chile sauce. It had enough spice to wake me up but not so spicy that I couldn’t taste the goodies. Santo’s sister eatery, Blackbelly Market, offers a wider menu including more types of smoked meats inside the breakfast burritos.

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Nobody knows exactly where and when Colorado’s breakfast burrito boom started, but it was somewhere in the late 1970s. Whenever it spawned, the morning entrée is so popular now that it has its own holiday. This year Colorado will celebrate Breakfast Burrito Day on Oct. 8. John Lehndorff

Tiki Recipe Flashback from Trader Vic’s This is a recipe from Trader Vic Book of Food and Drink (1946, Doubleday Books). Trader Vic’s Punch 1/2 an orange 1/2 a lemon 1 1/4 ounces dark Jamaica Rum (Red Heart or Myers’s) 1 1/4 ounces Puerto Rican rum (Ron Merito or Brugal) 1 slice pineapple 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon orgeat syrup (almond favoring) Squeeze orange and lemon; drip in glass; add a handful of shaved ice with the liquor, fruit, and rest of the ingredients; hand-shake and serve unstrained in a 14-ounce stubby glass.

Culinary Calendar: Peaches and Wine The inaugural Ned Jazz and Wine Festival in Nederland’s Chipeta Park on Aug. 20 includes live music, vendors, food and tastes from Colorado beverage makers. On the menu are wines from Augustina’s Winery (in Nederland), Alfred Eames Cellars, Jack Rabbit Hill Farm, Mesa Winds Winery and Silver Vines Winery, with spirits from CapRock, Gold Dirt Distillery and Suerte, plus ciders, lemon wines and meads. Festival proceeds beneft programs for Nederland area seniors. nedjazzwine.com … The menu at Lafayette Peach Festival Aug. 20 includes peaches by the pound, peach pie and cobbler from The Huckleberry, plus queso fries, Nepali food and mini donuts. Send information about local food events, classes, tastings, pairings, farmstands and eatery openings to: Nibbles@BoulderWeekly.com

Another Roadfood Attraction: Widespread Pizza Like most new neighborhoods in the Denver metro area, Lowry is populated primarily by the same old chain restaurant names. I looked for a local spot to meet up with old friends and found Walter’s 303 Pizzeria & Publik House. A pizzeria is only as good as its crust, and Walter’s hand-tossed crust passes the crunchy-but-tender test. We enjoyed it under two pies. The classic margherita crowned with herb-garlic olive oil, basil leaves, Roma tomatoes and mozzarella. The Greek pizza features herb-garlic olive oil, spinach, sun-dried tomato, artichokes, garlic feta and mozzarella.Walter’s—which is decorated with Widespread Panic posters—also offers deep-dish versions, gluten free and caulifower crusts and pizza sauce choices include BBQ marinara and herb-garlic olive oil. Top shelf toppings range from Genoa salami to caramelized onions. The menu at Walter’s 303 also features calzones, lasa gna and a substantial chicken marinara sub sandwich. Breakfast chorizo burrito with a view, a Denver pizza nd, and Nederland’s wine fest debuts

Happy cows stay healthier and produce better meat and dairy. Stressed cows (like stressed humans) suffer from weight loss, weakened immune systems, digestive problems, reduced appetites and reduced reproductive capacity. Meaning, cattle farmers have good reasons to invest in the happiness of their bovines. Recent research from Kansas State University (KSU) may have identifed a new means for farmers to achieve that for their cattle. A means that’s almost as obvious as it could be revolutionary.“Hempmaybe a natural way to decrease stress and infammation related to pro duction practices,” Michael KleinhenzKleinhenzsays.is a research er and assistant professor of beef production medicine at KSU. His lab focuses on pain management and stress mitigation for livestock, and he was curious how industrial hemp could be used within that context. The feds were curious too. In 2020, the Department of Agriculture (DOA) granted Kleinherz’ research team $200,000 to investigate whether feeding hemp to live stock was safe or if it would result in unacceptable levels of cannabinoids in animal products (meaning any level). Hemp is the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana. It likewise produces cannabinoids like CBD, CBGA and CBDA, molecules gaining popularity for their medicinal qualities—reducing pain, aiding sleep, and, of course, relieving anxiety. No one had ever experimented with using hemp as a feed supplement for cattle before, so Kleinhenz stepped up to the plate. With the DOA grant money, he and his team set out to answer the question: Does feeding hemp to beef and dairy cows result in contaminated products? For the study, Kleinhenz and his team used 16 Hol stein steers, half of which ate regular (control) feed while the other half got a healthy dose of high CBDA hemp.

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CBDA has a similar molecular structure to anti-infamma tory drugs like ibuprofen, and is anecdotally even more effective at treating infammation, insomnia, epilepsy, nausea and anxiety than CBD. The KSU team of researchers observed the cattle for two straight weeks, tracking the cows’ move ments and taking blood samples to monitor biomarkers for stress like cortisol and prostaglandins. Not only did they fnd that feeding hemp to cows doesn’t permanently contaminate the meat or dairy they produce, but they unexpectedly discovered that doing so actually improves their“Cattlehealth.inthe HEMP group demonstrated an 8.8% reduction in prostaglandin E2 concentrations from baseline compared to a 10.2% increase from baseline observed in the [control] group,” the study’s abstract reads. It also notes that the hemp-eating cows spent more time lying down, which improves cows’ health and actually makes dairy cows more productive. “These results suggest that feeding [industrial hemp] with a high CBDA content for 14 days increases lying behavior and decreases biomarkers of stress and infam mation in cattle,” the abstract concludes. “We didn’t think we would see [stress reduction] to the degree of what we saw,” Kleinhenz says. “We most defnitely didn’t expect to see any differences in the lying behavior . . . and the anti-infammatory component was a kind of a surprise to us as well.”

Feeding hemp to cattle is safe for consumers, new research suggests, and it’s actually good for the cows too by Will Brendza

“When do we need to actually start applying these things to reach the maximum beneft? Is it just a one off thing or do [cows] need to be fed a handful of days before that stressful event? How much [hemp] is good? Are we going to reach a point where we could see some detrimentalObviously,effects?”alotof questions linger. But Kleinhenz and his team are already planning follow-up studies to answer them. Email: wbrendza@boulderweekly.com

Kleinhenz is excited about the implications of this research. This discovery could help farmers reduce anxiety levels during stressful times in the cattle’s lives— like during transportation or weaning, when the cows are separated from their mothers. If hemp can be fed to cattle ahead of these events, Kleinhenz is hopeful that it could signifcantly improve their overall health. But is it an ethical way of addressing the problem? Could it enable inhumane cattle operations to continue mishandling their animals? “Number one, I unfortunately work with too many producers that I could see where that could be the effect. But I think those people in our industry are going away, ” Kleinhenz says. “Number two . . . you can’t feed enough hemp to a cow to make up for a poor diet or substandard housingPeopleconditions.”can(and will) argue those points until the cows come home. But the fact remains, Kleinhenz’ re search indicates a useful tool for cattle farmers to make cows less stressed. Something that isn’t pharmaceutical or technological.“Wewanted to be able to maybe provide something that would be a little more natural for producers to use to reduce stress,” he says. “We did make big steps in that [regard].”There is a lot more research that needs to be done on this topic, though, Kleinhenz notes.

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